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Auction Name
Rare Autographs, Books, Photos & Ephemera
Auction Date
04/23/2025 - 04/23/2025
Sale Number
#42325
Total Lots
508
Sold Lots
489
Lots Sold
96.26%
Unsold Lots
19
Total Sales (USD)
1,032,660.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
760,440.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,022,550.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,777,740.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,309,550.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
44.71%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
503 Einstein

Einstein, 3pp of Unified Field Theory Equations: "I want to try to show that a truly natural choice for field equations exists." He Formalizes His Final Approach, Association to Theory of Relativity

ca. 1940s USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 100,000.00
350 Marilyn Monroe's

Marilyn Monroe's Best Personally Owned & Annotated Script for Unfinished Last Film, "Something's Got to Give" (1962)

1962-02-12 USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 68,750.00
73 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Full Bold Sig On Important Treasury Doc. The Day He Appointed Halleck to Lead the Army!

July 11, 1862 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 28,125.00
66 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Rare Signed Check To Law Partner W.H. Herndon, Perhaps Unique as Such!

June 13, 1859 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 23,750.00
68 Lincoln

Lincoln Appointment for Cabinet Member With Largest, Boldest, Full Signature! Important Content: Detente with England

September 12, 1861 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,500.00
505 Einstein

Einstein 1935 TLS, Hopes to Warn Non-Jews of "The true nature of the Hitler regime"

1935-03-01 USD 8,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD 21,250.00
437 Peter the Great

Peter the Great Congratulates Brother Frederick Wilhelm I On Birth of Son, Future King Frederick William II of Prussia

October 7, 1722 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,480.00
318

1698 South Carolina Slavery Archive Huguenot Planters Earliest Rare Plat Maps for Plantations 41 Docs 107 pp. Most Colonial

ca. 1698-1835 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 20,000.00
303 John Hancock

Boldest 1782 John Hancock Signed Doc For Privateer Captured by British in a Bloody Cannon Battle!

May 13, 1782 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,750.00
26 James Garfield

James Garfield Letter as President on Executive Mansion Stationery! "regretting the embarrassments" Super Rare!

April 29, 1881 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 18,750.00
71 Lincoln

Lincoln Promotes Antietam Veteran Later Captured by Mosby's Rangers During 1864 Action of Mount Zion Church

March 10, 1863 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 18,750.00
72 Lincoln & Johnson

Lincoln & Johnson Signed Autograph Album (Beckett), Plus 10 Cabinet Members! 74 Signatures Total

ca. 1864-1867 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
74

Asst. Sec. of War Testifies On Lincoln Assassination: "Booth tried to persuade him to shoot the President" - Includes Charge Of Johnson as Part of Plot & Impeachment, 32pp

May 30, 1867 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 17,500.00
501 Einstein; James Byrnes

Manhattan Project Period Security Check Signed by Einstein as a Reference, with James Byrnes Signed Copy of Famous Einstein Letter to Roosevelt

1944-03-03 USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,250.00
464 Adam Smith

Adam Smith ALS While Revising "The Wealth of Nations" - A New Discovery Documenting Meeting with Influential Editor

December 21, 1786 USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 15,000.00
463 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand 8pp AMS for "Los Angeles Times" Sunday Column "War & Peace" - Copiously Edited, 900+ Words In Her Hand!

1962-06-12 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,000.00
346 Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Signed Essay From High School Incl. 200 Words in His Hand, "man's ability to brave the dangers which confront him." Among Earliest Known Writing Examples- Beckett Authenticated

ca. late 1950s USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,750.00
408

Tokyo War Crimes Files of Prosecuting Attorney For POW Camp Atrocities, 500+ Pages, Unpublished Court Documents, Photos and More

1946-1947 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 13,750.00
351 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Note Thanking Airman for Lending His Jacket, "It kept me soooo warm"

ca. February 1954 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,500.00
102

[Lincoln Assassination] ALS Regarding Ownership of the Pistol That Killed Lincoln

2002-02-14 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 10,625.00

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